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Recorded: Cheltenham Festival, 7 July 1972 (Vaughan Williams), Barking Town Hall, 26 November 1969 (Hadley, Bax), Maida Vale Studios, 12 December 1966 (Berg) Sir Adrian Boult was Vaughan Williams's close friend and one of his greatest advocates. The broadcast in excellent stereo from the 1972 Cheltenham Festival marks the composers 100th anniversary with wonderful performances of Symphony No.6 (Boult gave the first performance of this work in 1947) and the ever popular Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. Boult recorded these works in the studio many times but these are live performances and the occasion is palpably felt. There are two short fillers in stereo from Patrick Hadley (celebrating Vaughan Williams's 70th birthday) and Arnold Bax with his warmly atmospheric 'Mediterranean' both recorded in the studio in 1969. As a substantial bonus and also as a 'must' for Boult collectors is a very rare broadcast made in 1966 in stereo of Berg's 'Lyric Suite'. Boult gave a pioneering performance of Berg's 'Wozzeck' in 1933 and therefore it is of particular interest to hear his interpretation of the three movement 'Lyric Suite', one of the composers most approachable works. “…characteristically unforced, humane and, above all, honest readings of the Tallis Fantasia and Sixth Symphony… Boult aficionados will not want to miss this absorbing anthology.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2009 “...testaments to what an outstanding Vaughan Williams interpreter Boult was, whether in the luminous intensity and effortlessly sculpted lines of the Fantasia, or the brutal drama he unleashes in the Sixth, whose premiere he had conducted 24 years earlier.” The Guardian, 1st May 2009 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Heifetz Encores Volume 2Original 1946-47 Recordings
Arensky: | Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: Tempo di valse | Bach, J S: | English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV811: Gavottes I and II | Bax: | Mediterranean | Beethoven: | Dance No. 6 from 12 Deutsche Tänze WoO8 | Castelnuovo-Tedesco: | Sea Murmurs | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1 | Debussy: | Il pleure dans mon cœur (No. 2 from Ariettes Oubliées) Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin | Falla: | Jota (No. 4 from Siete canciones populares españolas) arr. for violin and piano | Halffter, E: | Danza de la gitana | Korngold: | Holzapfel und Schlehwein Garden scene | Mendelssohn: | Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 (Scherzo - Leggiero e vivace) Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 1 in E major 'Sweet Remembrance' | Milhaud: | Saudades do Brasil: Corcovado | Mozart: | Divertimento No. 17 in D Major, K334: Minuet | Nin: | Cantilena asturiana | Rimsky Korsakov: | Flight of the Bumble Bee | Sarasate: | Danza Española No. 3: Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22, No. 1 | Schubert: | Sonatina in D major, D384 (Op. posth. 137 No. 1): Rondo | Tansman: | Cinq Pieces pour Violon avec accompagnement de Piano ou de petit orchestre: Mouvement perpetuel | Wieniawska: | Tango |
Over four days of sessions in Hollywood during 1946 and 1947, Jascha Heifetz and his regular accompanist Emanuel Bay recorded this evocative series of encores. The repertoire was wide-ranging, and included three Spanish pieces by Sarasate, Nin and Ernesto Halffter, all delectably played, in his only recordings of them. He turned also to his own transcription of Bax’s Mediterranean as well as to staples such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling Flight of The Bumble-Bee. Throughout, Heifetz’s bowing, pizzicati, double stops, glissandi and inimitable portamenti grace these pieces with incredible freshness. Mark Obert-Thorn, reissue producer and audio restoration engineer “Puckish Mozart, dreaming Debussy, heartfelt Korngold, elegant Bach, sultry Falla: Heifetz the magician is on full display in these 1940s recordings.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 **** | | | (also available to download from $8.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Bax - Piano Music Volume 3
“This beautifully recorded collection of eleven short works is played with exquisite refinement by Wass.” Classic FM Magazine “Wass summons up all the tone color and sustaining power needed to convey the orchestral sensibility of the piano writing…In short, collectors who've enjoyed Wass' previous Bax discs also will find this well-recorded, superbly annotated release to their liking” Classics Today “As on previous volumes… Wass allows the music sample time to breathe and he brings an immaculate touch, refinement and unflinching concentration to everything he does.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2006 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Boult conducts Bax
“Sir Adrian was a consistent champion of the composer and an eloquent interpreter of this appealing music” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Bax - Piano Music
“A set not just for devoted Baxians. Loveridge brings out all the surging imagination of the First and Second Piano Sonatas. Her touch with the many shorter pieces is unerringly sure.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Best of British
Bainton, E: | And I saw a new heaven | Bax: | Mediterranean | Bayco: | Elizabethan Masque | Berkeley, L: | The Lord is my Shepherd, Op. 91 No. 1 | Binge: | Miss Melanie Elizabethan Serenade The Water Mill | Bliss: | The Rout Trot Bliss | Britten: | A Hymn of Saint Columba | Coates, E: | Dance in the Twilight Impressions of a Princess - Intermezzo Wood Nymphs Dam Busters March | Collins, A: | Vanity Fair | Curzon: | Punchinello - Miniature Overture The Boulevardier | Dexter, H: | Siciliano | Docker: | Tabarinage | Duncan, Trevor: | March from A Little Suite | Elgar: | Introduction & Allegro for strings, Op. 47 | Farnon: | Portrait of a Flirt | Gardiner, H B: | Overture to a Comedy | German: | Dances from the music of Henry VIII | Goossens: | Folk-Tune By the Tarn, Op. 15 No. 1 | Harris, W: | Faire is the Heaven | Hartley, F: | Rouge et Noir | Harvey, J: | I love the Lord | Hope: | Jaunting Car | Howells: | Like as the Hart | Ireland: | Greater Love Hath No Man | Lambert, C: | Elegiac Blues Elegy Piano Concerto | Langford, A: | Waltz for string orchestra | Leighton: | Let all the world in every corner sing | Maw, N: | One foot in Eden still, I stand | Mayerl: | Marigold Puppets Suite: No. 3 - Punch Ace of Hearts Piano Exaggerations: Antiquary Shallow Waters The Printer's Devil Piano Exaggerations: Sleepy Piano Railroad Rhythm | Naylor, E W: | Vox dicentis: Clama | Osborne, L: | Lullaby for Penelope | Quilter: | Three English Dances Where the Rainbow Ends - suite | Tomlinson: | Little Serenade | Vaughan Williams: | Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Vinter: | Portuguese Party | Walton: | Old Sir Faulk Siesta Set me as a seal upon thine heart Sonata for String Orchestra | Weir: | Ascending Into Heaven | Williams, Gerrard: | Déjeuner dansant | Wood, C: | Hail, gladdening Light | Wood, Haydn: | Joyousness Montmartre |
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano) Pro Arte Orchestra, Studio Two Concert Orchestra, Light Music Society Orchestra, English Sinfonia, Northern Sinfonia of England, Choir of King's College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, George Weldon, Reginald Kilbey, Vivian Dunn, Eric Coates, Richard Hickox, Stephen Cleobury The very best of British music, with the finest British artists: after a disc of such evergreen light favourites as Elizabethan Serenade and the Dam Busters march, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett takes us from the dizzy displays of Billy Mayerl to the dark despair of Constant Lambert. The late Richard Hickox reveals the charm of the English miniature and presents three string masterpieces; in between, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, in definitive accounts of 19th- and 20th-century anthems. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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